Hi All! Post your 2017 runs in this thread and I'll keep this first post up to date with everyone's high run. No need to private message me unless you're trying to hide from group feedback! This list is for regular posters here on AZ Billiards. Videos are always in demand and generate good discussion and I'll post links if you upload them. Good luck all!

Hi All! Post your 2017 runs in this thread and I'll keep this first post up to date with everyone's high run. No need to private message me unless you're trying to hide from group feedback! This list is for regular posters here on AZ Billiards. Videos are always in demand and generate good discussion and I'll post links if you upload them. Good luck all!

Hi All! Post your 2017 runs in this thread and I'll keep this first post up to date with everyone's high run. No need to private message me unless you're trying to hide from group feedback! This list is for regular posters here on AZ Billiards. Videos are always in demand and generate good discussion and I'll post links if you upload them. Good luck all!

How good of you to continue this thread (series)! Great excuse to not just shoot but move up the coin and count.

My best of the year so far was a 115 on the 20th of January. Missed an easy secondary break shot because the mobile phone rang at just the wrong moment - important DHL redelivery I'd been waiting for, but then, how could anyone or anything claim to be more "important" than Straight Pool?!

(Other than that, my "old age" problem persists: running multiples of 14 + 1 most of the time, missing the first shot after the break all too often - seems as if a shot - any shot - can't be easy enough for me these days…)

36 ball run, Feb 6, in a match against my regular sparring partner. No video, need to work on that!

I know it's dwarfed by the regulars here, but I believe it's my new all time high run. My high run around the time I quit playing in ~'96 was 35. My previous high run since returning to pool in 2011 was 26 on 12/24/13 in a practice session. Hope to have reasons to make subsequent posts to this thread

How good of you to continue this thread (series)! Great excuse to not just shoot but move up the coin and count.

My best of the year so far was a 115 on the 20th of January. Missed an easy secondary break shot because the mobile phone rang at just the wrong moment - important DHL redelivery I'd been waiting for, but then, how could anyone or anything claim to be more "important" than Straight Pool?!

(Other than that, my "old age" problem persists: running multiples of 14 + 1 most of the time, missing the first shot after the break all too often - seems as if a shot - any shot - can't be easy enough for me these days…)

Thank you, bud! I'm sometimes saying to myself I'll quit if a year goes by without running three digits at least once, or a practice session in which I don't at least run 50 (my "daily regime" if in fact I managed to play every day - mere wishful thinking…). Not the wisest of goals psychologically speaking: "who lives by the sword shall die by the sword!"

Watched this earlier, wondering (as you probably did in hindsight) why you didn't bank the ball - and was reminded of the fact that since I don't "practice" (as in prepare for tournaments, by which I'm really referring to other than Straight Pool) anymore, but don't do anything other than set up a Straight Pool break shot and run balls, I don't quite have the confidence to bank balls anymore that I used to (but roughly the same confidence in cutting a ball into a side pocket, in this case a blind side pocket). Having said that, the bank may have been the "correct" shot in your scenario anyhow (= just running balls for fun, no real penalty)?

Watched this earlier, wondering (as you probably did in hindsight) why you didn't bank the ball - and was reminded of the fact that since I don't "practice" (as in prepare for tournaments, by which I'm really referring to other than Straight Pool) anymore, but don't do anything other than set up a Straight Pool break shot and run balls, I don't quite have the confidence to bank balls anymore that I used to (but roughly the same confidence in cutting a ball into a side pocket, in this case a blind side pocket). Having said that, the bank may have been the "correct" shot in your scenario anyhow (= just running balls for fun, no real penalty)?